Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.